The Devotional Todcast

The Deep End: A Deep Love

Do we want to love the Lord as He commanded us to, as He is worthy of? Today we will discover that loving the Lord is best done by a deep love for His people. We don't need to guess how to love the Lord, we just need to listen to what He commanded us to do. And He wants us to love one another. But since this is "The Deep End", we will discover a secret motivation to loving one another that will motivate us like nothing else can. We hope this blesses your soul!

The Deep End: Plowing Forward

We start a new podcast series called "The Deep End" and our first deep end conversation is how we can be truly committed to our Lord Jesus. We'll look at what Jesus meant when He said in Luke 9:62, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the Kingdom of God." We will consider what it looks like to plow forward in the Christian life and how we can keep that proper mindset at all times. We hope this blesses your soul!

Shields Up!: Keeping the Proper Perspective

Having the right and proper perspective in the Christian life is so important that it might make or break our success. As we'll discuss, the devil is doing some very crafty things in order to pervert our perspective, and we'll discuss how we can not only combat his deceptions, but to offensively strive after keeping the right perspective. We will once again seek to put our shield up faith up against the devil today. We hope this blesses your soul!

Shields Up!: The Nature of Storms

In this episode we look at the nature of trials or storms in the Christian life. We often have the wrong perspective of the storms we face, and a lot of that comes from listening to the lies of the evil one. But storms are actually a blessed gift from God for the sake of our maturity in Christ. We will explore this very deep topic and hopefully come out of it with a better perspective on the purpose of the storms God allows into our lives. Hope this blesses you!

Shields Up!: Spiritual Traps and Pitfalls

Every day we avoid or seek to navigate around things that would be harmful to our lives or progress, but do we also do this with our spiritual lives? The devil is crafty and he's doing all he can to place traps and pitfalls along our path so we fail to reach our destination of maturity in Christ. We will discuss 7 spiritual traps and pitfalls we can face every single day and then hopefully make sure we avoid each of these so we can make swift, profound progress in the Christian journey. Blessings to you as you strive to follow the Lord today!

Shields Up!: Spiritual Alarm Clock

We all neglect do to things from time to time and forgetfulness is how we justify the things we neglect to do. But we also know how to discipline ourselves to do things every single day without missing. So where does acting like the Church line up? Do we neglect to act like the Church or are we disciplining ourselves every day so we will NEVER neglect to act like the Church? We will talk about why it's important to have spiritual alarm clocks in this Christian life. Hope it's a blessing to you!

Shields Up!: Identity Theft

Is the devil stealing our identity as Christians? Are we seeing ourselves as something much poorer than God intended? Is the Church beyond what we consider it to be? We will discuss these questions as we seek to put our shield of faith up against the devil and hopefully find our true identity in Christ as His Church. Blessings to you!

Shields Up!: Why Invest in the Church?

God's Church is the greatest institution ever designed and yet sadly our culture often devalues it or seeks to tailor-make it to fit our desires. So in an effort to figure this out, we bring in Pastor Mel Walker, who (along with being WVC's Assistant Pastor) is a long time youth minister and an observer of cultural trends, especially in the Church. In this interview style podcast, we will seek to combat the devil's perversions and attacks against Christ's Church so that we can properly value and invest in it. We hope this is a blessing to you!

Shields Up!: Just Enough Church

We like to have things in the proper dosage in our lives. Having too much of something can cramp our lifestyle. But does this happen with the Church too? Do we like having just enough Church? We'll explain this and discuss what is a dangerous trend in our day and age - having just enough Church. The Church is God's singular plan of accomplishing His Will and glorifying His Son. The question can be posed, if we're not totally invested, are we invested at all? We hope this blesses your soul!

Shields Up: Third Option?

We love having options in our lives. Most of us love feeling as if we're not chained down and we can make something custom-made for what we desire. That might be fine with certain things, but when it gets into how we see Christianity, it becomes deadly. We will discuss why there are only two clear options in Scripture and how we can defeat the devil's deception that a 3rd option exists. Many blessings!